You're a "Wonder", Cathy Lee Crosby :-) !!! Long Live the '70s!!!
WONDER WOMAN (1974) starring Cathy Lee Crosby comes to DVD at long last via the amazing (and essential) Warner Bros. Archive! This is a tough movie to pin down - the absolutely *beautiful* Cathy Lee Crosby is excellent as Wonder Woman, but the turgid script by John D.F. Black (STAR TREK - Season One writer/story editor) is difficult to sit thru - this movie is a scant 73 minutes...that runs for AT LEAST 3 hours :-). Wonder Woman's costume is a Hollywood fabrication and looks nothing like the Classic costume from the comic books (TV network logic unleashed...). The Diana-as-a-secret agent set-up was later utilized - far more effectively - as the premise for the last two seasons of the Lynda Carter WONDER WOMAN TV series. Trivia Note - Kaz Garras who plays Steve Trevor later guest-starred on the 1979 WONDER WOMAN episode "Going, Going, Gone". Guest stars Andrew Prine and Ricardo Montalban are A-plus all the way. There are also several excellent action/battle scenes in this movie...
Lacks alot of the comic book stuff.
If I remember the Linda Carter TV version was a little more accurate to the comic book " Wonder Woman". Its odd the pilot episode contains hardly any of the super hero aspects of Wonder Woman, there's no lasso of truth or invisible jet, no bullet proof armlets or bracelets. Admittedly the invisible jet might have been hard for 70's TV budget. But the only thing that made "Wonder Woman" anything more than a female version of James Bond was her Amazonian lineage. If your picking this up for your comic book too movies collection you might want to pop for the season 1 Wonder Woman with Linda Carter. No disrespect for Cathy Lee Crosby, it is just that the Linda Carter wonder woman series is a better portrayal of Wonder Woman the super hero.
Who would buy this on dvd ??? ... Me
Captain America came to mind the first time I saw this different Wonder Woman suit offered as a custom choice in a old catalog, then this movie was on one late night. As a kid who grew up watching SuperFriends and seeing Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, I hated that she was blonde and wore a "fake" outfit in this movie. But after all these years, I've mellowed a bit having to deal with blonde Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark) in both comics and on Young Justice (a show I love), where the character grew on me. Initially, I wondered who would want this low rent, non Lynda Carter version until I revisted it on Youtube. Then I had to have the dvd. The movie moves along quite well with its cool 70's style, thanks in large part to Artie Baker's tight retro beats which pepper the action moments. And with Kate's face, Farrah's hair and Jaclyn's wardrobe, Cathie Lee Crosby is awesome as a one woman Charlie's Angels outsmarting her opponents and saving the day. The tall, skinny actor playing "George"...
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